RealClearBooks Week of September 8, 2025 Archives

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Monday, September 8
Consider the Quarterback
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
Are the Chiefs Cooked?
Austin Gayle The Ringer
Is Austin Butler a Movie Star?
Alexander Larman Spectator World
The Birth of Cool
Christopher J. Scalia Washington Free Beacon
Local History
Farahn Morgan Long Road Home
What Is the Price of Parenting?
Ivana Greco Commonplace
The Love Affairs of Prestige
Ross Barkan Political Currents
'Weapons' Is a Post-Woke Masterpiece
Nora Kenney The American Conservative
Overdramatic. And True.
Alma Igra The Point
The False Promises of Protein-Packing
Hannah Rowan The Dispatch
Stray Dogs
Leo Robson New Left Review
I Come in Self-Annihilation
John Pistelli Romanticon
Finding Home—and Chaos—in Colombia’s Coffee Axis
Andrew Boryga Places Review
The Unsettled Peter Sellers
Christopher Sandford Modern Age
Why Cancel Culture is Fading
Rob Henderson Substack
On Alex Garland’s “Civil War”
Roy Scranton Cleveland Review of Books
The Gospel According to Matthew
Pico Iyer Air Mail
What is Blueskyism?
Nate Silver Silver Bulletin


Tuesday, September 9
Carlos Alcaraz Set the U.S. Open on Fire
Lex Pryor The Ringer
What’s the Deal with U.F.O.s?
Matthew Hutson The New Yorker
The Abundance Delusion
Mike Solana The Atlantic
The Language of Independence
Samuel Cornell Quillette
Edu Ex Machina
Maria Gomberg The Point
Weightlifting in the Underground
Matthew Gasda First Things
Do Media Organizations Even Want Cultural Criticism?
Charlotte Klein NYMag
Why Former NFL All-Pros Are Turning to Psychedelics
John Semley Wired
Can We Be Earnest Again?
Valerie Pavilonis The Dispatch
The Cult of Black and White
Anita Bushell The Metropolitan Review
Art Loves You Back When People Don’t
Sophia Stewart Hyperallergic
Eat, Pray, Leave
Kay S. Hymowitz City Journal
Lost in the Literature of Darkness
Auguste Meyrat Chronicles
Why Civics Education Is America’s New Flashpoint
Maggie Miller RCInvestigations
To Read Is Human
Nadya Williams Providence
Meet the Rave-Throwing Think Tank Shaping the Tech-Right
Nancy Scola Inc.
Disney’s ‘Boy Trouble’ Is A Crisis Of Its Own Making
Amanda Harding Daily Wire


Wednesday, September 10
Alice, or The Wild Girl
Michael Robert Liska RealClearBooks
How 'The Paper' Pulled Off an Impossible Feat
Josh Rosenberg Esquire
What Happened to the Skinnyfat Novelist?
Emma Foley Cracks in Postmodernity
How America Fell in Love With the Quarterback
Seth Wickersham The Atlantic
Why Christopher Marlowe Is Still Making Trouble
Anthony Lane The New Yorker
Millennial Cringe
Daniel Kolitz The Baffler
Gazing into One’s Own Head
Josh Billings Los Angeles Review of Books
Unpathed Waters
Aaron Labaree Cleveland Review of Books
Eating McDonald's at NatCon
Fred Bauer Rounding Up
The Great Conservative Cultural Appropriation
Emma Collins A New Heaven
Big Fiction
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters
Is Baseball Broken?
David M. Shribman Wall Street Journal
The Grim Economics of Publishing
Alexander Larman Substack
Madness! Mayhem! Megalopolis!
Steve Rose Air Mail
I Hear That You and Your Band
Samir Chadha Southwest Review
The Good Apprentice
Matthew B. Crawford The Hedgehog Review


Thursday, September 11
The Political Trickery of “Eddington”
Richard Brody The New Yorker
The Summer I Fell Into a Toxic Teen Rabbit Hole
Jodi Walker The Ringer
Britney Spears Will Never Be Free
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
The State of the Literary It Girl
Emmeline Clein Cultured
Leigh Stein on the Exhausting Lives of Internet Creators
Andrew Boryga Dwell
Book Review: Jordan Castro, ‘Muscle Man’
Sam Franzini Our Culture
This Is Not a 'Schattenfroh' Review
Henry Luzzatto Substack
The Woes of Slight Autism
Stephen G. Adubato The Metropolitan Review
A Big Show About the Little Things
Greta Rainbow The Atlantic
Absolute Values
Len Gutkin The Point
You're Being Rude. Put Away Your Phone.
Robinson Meyer The Argument
Search History
Laila Lalami The Nation
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Tedious Midlife Crisis
Poppy Sowerby UnHerd
Scattered Thoughts on the State of Book Reviews
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft


Friday, September 12
Why Are Liberals Returning to Elon Musk’s X?
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
‘Foundation’ Isn’t Homework
Miles Surrey The Ringer
Susan Choi’s Big Novel of History
Sarah Chihaya The Nation
Don’t Fall for K-Pop’s Kind Faces
Ella Dorn UnHerd
The Lackluster Return of Spinal Tap
Adam Nayman The New Republic
Stylish Millennial Libs Are the New Preppers
Kase Wickman Vanity Fair
he Buzziest Video Game of the Year Is Here
Joshua Rivera Slate
How I Became a Fan of Jia Tolentino
George Dardess Close Reading
The Academy Against the Constitution
Aaron Slutkin Law & Liberty
Why Arundhati Roy Fled Literary Fame
Anderson Tepper The Atlantic
The Enemy of Aggression
Zach Gibson Los Angeles Review of Books
DEI Is Real Cause of America’s Housing Crisis
Daniel Huff & Paige Bronitsky Fox News
When the Music’s Over
Thaddeus G. McCotter Chronicles
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Drive-By Tweeting by Compact
Available this week: "Alice, or the Wild Girl" by Michael Robert Liska
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